Fixing the Vostro hang issue

Some time ago, when I replaced Ubuntu 7.10 on my Dell Vostro 200 ST with Fedora 9 I bumped into
an issue that prevented Fedora from booting randomly. After some searching with Google I found
a solution on Dell's wiki. However, I never gave it a try. Instead, when Ubuntu 8.04 LTS came out,
I installed Ubuntu instead, not expecting to run into the same issue because 7.10 worked fine (or maybe
I was just lucky).

And today I decided to finally look into the issue by installing Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS and seeing if
the solution on Dell's wiki would fix the issue.